Boston fans a cut above

[Bronx33]

Well it was just a matter of time before they fiqured out how to blow themselves.

LiNK
(http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/football/patriots/view.bg?articleid=1068889)

New England Patriots [team stats] fans are smarter, classier and healthier and own pricier homes than the riff-raff who root for the New York Giants - and now we’ve got the research to back it up.

Some 62 percent of Pats fans living in the Boston area earned a bachelor’s or postgraduate degree or have some higher-education experience, compared to 59 percent of Giants fans, according to the latest marketing data provided by the Nielsen Co., the TV ratings firm.

Likewise, 72 percent of Pats fans live in homes worth north of $200,000, compared to 63 percent of Giants yahoos, the Nielsen data show.

That’s just for starters.

Pats fans consistently show better taste than their Gotham counterparts, according to Nielsen.

We drink Amstel Light, not Bud Light. Giants fans slug back lots of whiskey.

We are likely to read connoisseur magazines like Wine Spectator. Gotham fans like to pig out on junk food like pretzels, chips and nuts. They’re also less likely to favor organic food than other New Yorkers.

Giants tailgaters are conspicuous consumers who party off the backs of Land Rovers and showy BMW SUVs. Pats fans are more likely to tailgate off the back of an understated Lexus or a sturdy Volvo SUV.

When Pats revelers aren’t watching football, they’re hitting the slopes skiing or going for a sail. They’re also more likely to belong to country clubs.

When Giants fans aren’t booing Giants coach Tom Coughlin or punk quarterback Eli Manning in that New Jersey stadium they call home, they’re out practicing their tennis backhands in the backyard.

None of these marketing revelations came as a surprise to Mike Schuster, 45, who lives in the shadow of Gillette Stadium in Foxboro.

“Boston fans are much classier,” said Schuster, a real estate agent and software consultant who is heading out to Arizona for the Super Bowl. “Have you ever been to Yankee stadium? I mean, they boo their own players.”

“Bostonians, in general, are better educated,” Schuster added. “New Yorkers have to send their kids to Boston to educate them.”

It’s also worth noting that the Patriots are an equal opportunity franchise, drawing more female fans than the competition. Nearly half of all Pats backers - about 43 percent - are women. In Giants country, just 31 percent of the fans are female.

Pats fans are also more Web savvy, some 63 percent have broadband Internet connection.

Of course, though we may hate to admit it, fans on both sides of the turf do have some similarities. The Nielsen data indicate that Pats and Giants fans are both likely to live in “affluent” suburbs or rural neighborhoods. They both buy “above average” amounts of beer, too, and they like to garden.

[Bronco LB 59]

I would rather pound a beer and burn a blunt with Joe Six Pack anyday than be associated with some yuppie prick.

[PatsWin2002]

We do rock.

[broncocalijohn]

I would love to see a comparison of superbowl contestants of the NFC team versus what the Faiders fans are like. Oh wait, I did say superbowl contestants and included the Faiders. My mistake. WHo has that long to live?

[epicSocialism4tw]

Wow.

They have wasted little time in proudly perching themselves upon imagined greatness.

I have never liked the Yankees fans for similar reasons, but Boston fans are undoubtedly the bottom of the barrell.

[Hogan11]

We drink Amstel Light, not Bud Light.

I stopped right there...Amstel Light is overpriced garbage.

I've never really been fond of the Pats since they trashed their retro cool uniforms for that pewter flying Elvis thing anyways.

[DB_champ24]

Likewise, 72 percent of Pats fans live in homes worth north of $200,000, compared to 63 percent of Giants yahoos, the Nielsen data show.


200,000 dollars for a home! Thats pretty freakin cheap

[Houshyamama]

He unintentionally made both fan bases sound like a bunch of douche bags. Great read. Made me proud of not being a Pats/Giants fan.

[Dean]

I don't think that there is any way of denying it. Pats fans are a cut above. I believe that there was a misprint in the article. The comparison was with Oakland not with New York. However, what does it really mean to be a cut above the raider fans.

[Play2win]

We do rock.

We really don't need to know about your drug habits...

[Paladin]

Lol!!!!

[ColoradoDarin]

Giants tailgaters are conspicuous consumers who party off the backs of Land Rovers and showy BMW SUVs. Pats fans are more likely to tailgate off the back of an understated Lexus or a sturdy Volvo SUV.

Wow, utter douchebaggery on both sides there. I'll take my F-150 XLT over all of them.

Amstel light and a Volvo - I don't see how this is helping their case?

[DHallblows]

He unintentionally made both fan bases sound like a bunch of douche bags. Great read. Made me proud of not being a Pats/Giants fan.

LOL No joke! hahahaha Hilarious!





GOD, I hate the east coast...

[That One Guy]

Some 62 percent of Pats fans living in the Boston area earned a bachelor’s or postgraduate degree or have some higher-education experience, compared to 59 percent of Giants fans

Way to look like you're about to make a valid point and then water it down. You could have 59% of Giants fans with Graduate degrees and you could have 62% of Pats fans that took a single class in college and dropped out and could jusify this statement. If you're gonna substantiate education, don't include "some higher education experience" as that could be just about anything.

[broncofan]

Do we have stats for all 32 teams. I wonder who has the "dumbest" fans...

[bronco militia]

http://blogs.rockymountainnews.com/denver/drew/archives/DREW0126.gif

[400HZ]

Do we have stats for all 32 teams. I wonder who has the "dumbest" fans...

Do you really need to ask?

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[Man-Goblin]

Do you really need to ask?

http://cache.viewimages.com/xc/53346439.jpg?v=1&c=ViewImages&k=2&d=17A4AD9FDB9CF1939847EC77F5F8D1CE11DD7CDF7CCBF3EC A40A659CEC4C8CB6

Whoa. That chick is fat.

[loborugger]

This pic was actually in the Boston paper's article. I thought maybe the article was a parody til I saw this picture. Dude has a glass of wine in his hand at football game - or at a tailgate.

Good God, Meck, PLEASE tell me that you dont even have wine at your tailgates much less drink it.

That's just shameful. I would be less embarrassed if our fans put on spiked shoulder pads, ala Raider fan, than that.

[Doggcow]

Lol drinking wine at a football game doesn't make you classy, it makes you a ****ing moron.

[PatsWin2002]

I think John Candy came back just to root for the Patriots and have some pinot grigio.

[Rocket 7]

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e364/dipsomaniac1/patriot4l4hp.jpg

[gunns]

I doubt it was a parody. Wouldn't be surprised if it was written by, or after an interview with, Bill Belicheat. It smacks of the same arrogance.

[elsid13]

I doubt it was a parody. Wouldn't be surprised if it was written by, or after an interview with, Bill Belicheat. It smacks of the same arrogance.

Folks this "article" is written/broad-casted by every newspaper/TV station every time there is a "big" game like this whatever sport. It doesn't matter if NE/NY or Denver/Green Bay it the same article saying "our" city is better then theirs.

Freaking Channel 9 in DC had the same thing when the Skins played Seattle this season. Why DC was better the Seattle. It cheap sport journalism, that editors love.

[Ray Finkle]

But in the immortal words of Chris Rock "But can you kick my ass?"....

[Bronx33]

Some funny comments off of KSK about the artical..



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Blogger Brother Mouzone said...

The funny thing is that this comes from the Herald. 87% of Herald readers got kicked out of Catholic school, 74% failed the firefighters' exam, and 68% are going to get their real estate license any day now.

10:46 AM, January 27, 2008
Blogger August West said...

"100 percent of their fans have vaginas. That only 43 percent identify themselves as strictly female is a touch unclear."

Clearly this highly scientific survey sheet didn't have a checkmark box for lady-man-ladies ala Jamie Lee Curtis.

10:50 AM, January 27, 2008
Blogger Bistroist said...

Related articles: Welker bubbles from the bottom up

10:55 AM, January 27, 2008
Blogger peytonloveskenny said...

I'm not one to resort to violence, but I feel like punching the chick who wrote this.

11:24 AM, January 27, 2008
Blogger Bulger in My Pants said...

Nearly half of all Pats backers - about 43 percent - are women.

Take ol' Tom Brady out of the equation, and that percentage would change in a hahtbeat.

Oh, looka me and my vagina degrading the other vagina havers. I guess I have to vote for Hillary now.

11:50 AM, January 27, 2008
Blogger twoeightnine said...

or have some higher-education experience

I don't think mopping the halls at Bunker Hill Community College is a proof of intelligence.

12:17 PM, January 27, 2008
Blogger Brazil Thrill said...

It’s also worth noting that the Patriots are an equal opportunity franchise...

Have you guys ever played the "drink every time you see a black New England fan in the stands" game? I've watched every Pats game this season and have yet to take a shot.

12:30 PM, January 27, 2008
Blogger LiarLidimew said...

I love that no matter how much money, or "higher-education experience" NE fans achieve they will still type out their ridiculous accents. Giants fans maybe a bit slower on the uptake but they at least passed typing down at ITT tech.

12:31 PM, January 27, 2008
Blogger Cindy said...

My vagina has been a Pats fan since before that cute little quarterback Tony Eason was crushed by the Bears in 1986.

12:47 PM, January 27, 2008

[loborugger]

Notice the article misses a key component of what would make really good fans. You know things like consecutive sell outs. I bet if this was a article about the Sox, they would definitely have a tidbit about how many years its been since Fenway wasnt sold out. (I assume that is decades and decades).

[Bronx33]

The comments are pretty funny...

Boston Herald columnist, Jessica Heslam, brought the heat in her column last Friday when she proclaimed that "New England fans are smarter, classier and healthier and own pricier homes than the riff-raff who root for the New York Giants."

While Heslam provides ample "evidence" (read: Pats fans drink Amstel Light, not Bud Light. Case closed.) to prove her claim, a gracious fan hunter from Manhattan submitted the following picture in rebuttal, along with the subject line "kiss my ass boston...".

http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/8830/colvenjerseylc4.jpg

No big deal, right? Just another douche bag from Boston supporting his team. Dime a dozen. But wait, there's more.

No Tom Brady jersey - which is cool. We suspect the man crush that is Tom Brady has gotten so incredibly insane within the Massachusetts state boundaries that only a select number of people wear Brady jerseys these days. It's wayyy more hip to wear an more obscure personalized jersey. Brady jerseys are only for 8 year olds and for your wife to wear while participating in some bedroom role playing.

Scanning the Pats roster we find #59, Rosevelt Colvin.

Colvin. C-O-L-V-I-N. Yep, Colvin.

Take another peek at that jersey now. Having a personalized jersey made in reference to an obscure player is a slippery slope - seal the deal and look like a superfan. On the flip side, there isn't a barrage of checks and balances when you walk into the neighborhood sporting goods store. It's tough to misspell "Brady" when there's millions of example jerseys hanging in the aisles.

Colvin is a tough one though...as is "Bruschi", "Hochstein", and "Moss" (I can never remember if it's 2 or 3 "s'" at the end there).

Still impressed by the "smarter" and "classier" New England residents? We sure are.

{ Comments }

Posted By History Book :: January 29, 2008 @ 02:25:54 PM
Don't forget all the China-men who lost their lives building you.

Posted By Santa Fe Railway :: January 29, 2008 @ 01:52:56 PM
Why you damn free-loading, tax-payer subsized highways ought to shut up! In my day we owned all the land we traversed, paid for all right-of-way upkeep and our rolling stock. No free route on the Uncle Sam's dime where I come from!

Posted By Jon :: January 29, 2008 @ 01:20:07 PM
Gonna go ahead and say that's -his- last name. Oh, look we've already figured that out.

Posted By County Road 19 :: January 29, 2008 @ 12:17:12 PM
Once my gravel is covered with some tar, I too will be traveled. Oh yes I will.

Posted By TF :: January 29, 2008 @ 11:56:57 AM
Best comments section ever.

Posted By Route 66 :: January 29, 2008 @ 10:16:39 AM
You uppity interstates and park-a-ma-call-its are ruining the damned land. What ever happened to a good ol' hairpin turn or S-curve? Quit thinking straight is great and remember who paved the way for you self-aggrandizing, cop-infested dullways. I've gone through more rubbers in my day than you could dream of. I'll kick your asphalt any day.

Posted By Garden State Parkway :: January 29, 2008 @ 09:41:25 AM
Damn right. Go Parkways!

Posted By Baltimore-Washington Parkway :: January 29, 2008 @ 09:35:10 AM
Its so lame when these stupid numbered interstates start arguing with each other.

Posted By I-76 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:58:44 AM
Forget it, Beltways. Turnpikes are where the real money is.

Posted By I-495 and I-695 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:56:37 AM
Don't forget about us Beltways. We're a classy bunch, too!

Posted By I-40 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:55:21 AM
Yeah, seriously. Even numbered East/West interstates rule!

Posted By I-70 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:54:04 AM
Those odd numbered interstates that run North/South have no class at all.

Posted By I55 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:38:24 AM
Hey I95, take computers/internet 101 dude!
Posted By JB :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:27:09 AM
Someone needs to tell I95 to stop hitting "refresh" while his comment is posted.

Posted By I95 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:11:50 AM
Why cant every sports team on the I 95 sports corridor be put on a ship in the middle of the ocean and sunk?

Posted By I95 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:10:43 AM
Why cant every sports team on the I95 corridor be put on a ship in the middle of the ocean and sunk?

Posted By Anon :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:01:10 AM
Loyal Patriots fans. Season Ticket holders since 2002.

Posted By I95 :: January 29, 2008 @ 08:00:23 AM
Why cant every sports team on the I 95 corridor be put on a ship in the middle of the ocean and sunk?

Posted By Mark D :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:59:28 AM
So is this another variation of the "Wrong Jersey Retard?"

Posted By Sebek :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:56:21 AM
If you do, in fact, know this guy...and this guy's last name is "Colven", it's almost funnier - considering he chose a jersey with the real Colvin's number.

It makes absolutely no sense to draw connections to a professional athlete because his last name is almost spelled the same.

Posted By I95 :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:33:21 AM
Why cant every sports team on the I 95 corridor be put on a ship in the middle of the ocean and sunk?

Posted By I95 :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:30:11 AM
Why cant every sports team on the I 95 corridor be put on a ship in the middle of the ocean and sunk?

Posted By I95 :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:16:06 AM
Why cant every sports team on the I 95 corridor be put on a ship in the middle of the ocean and sunk?

Posted By TDS :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:12:55 AM
An adult with his own name on the back of a jeresy? That's even worse than a spelling error.

Posted By Badsin :: January 29, 2008 @ 06:43:37 AM
When did the Patriots move from Foxborough to Boston?

Posted By Ed :: January 29, 2008 @ 06:02:59 AM
Way to properly spell "Bud."

Posted By Uncle Frank :: January 29, 2008 @ 05:44:52 AM
Since when is Rosevelt Colvin an obscure player?

Posted By Jim :: January 29, 2008 @ 04:56:15 AM
Actually, I know this guy. His name is Dave Colven. One of his friends had the shirt made for him.

Posted By Lord Crappington IV :: January 29, 2008 @ 02:07:02 AM
This news agent�s words ring true. Those Ragamuffins of New York can sully a Bostonian lass's image with only the slightest gander. Their wit is as dim as the candles that light their shanties and their class extends not beyond their primary schools.

Posted By Peter King :: January 28, 2008 @ 09:21:58 PM
I do role playing by myself.
Posted By alex :: January 28, 2008 @ 08:28:35 PM
Those guys are going to dominate the **** out of some golden tee later!

[Hogan11]

Posted By TDS :: January 29, 2008 @ 07:12:55 AM
An adult with his own name on the back of a jeresy? That's even worse than a spelling error.

Spoken like an employee of the Pats merchandising dept. Keep shelling out $300 + every five years for transient players then......sucker.